How does your garden grow?

I've had in mind for some time to create a canvas which depicts a garden scene using grungey flowers and the Tim Holtz Bird Cage. I had the basic design in my head but it evolved as I went along. This was my finish product:

I'm really pleased with the end result. I used scrunched up tissue to define the sky at the top and the grass at the bottom which I applied with Gel Medium (matte), I coloured using the Eco-Friendly acrylic paints. Using stencils and moulding paste I created the crown and floral flourish and painted these using the Eco-Friendly acrylic paints. I used cordinations paper for the flowers and the branches which I sanded down. The flowers were made using spiral dies. The large yellow flower was made by scrunching tissue paper and dictionary pages which I had sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Mist and glued together. The white flower was hand painted and I added a flower button in the centre to finish it off.

Grunge paper was used for the birds, bird cage and the bracket. I finished my canvas off by using jump rings, steam punk jailers keys and pearls.

I am going to use this for a future workshop so watch this space!

A few competitions:

craftyourpassionchallenges - Anything but a card

allsortschallenge - Anything but a card

creativecardcrew - Handmade flowers

paperplaytime - Anything Goes

cottagecrafts.ie/fashionablestampingchallenges - Handmade flowers

craftsandmechallenges - Anything Goes

craftuscrazy - Anything Goes

paper-craftingjourney - Anything Goes

creativecraftchallenges2 - Anything but a card

shellysimagesblog - Anything Goes

dreamvalleychallenges - Distressing

pollycraftchallengeblog - Distressing

makeitmonday - Anything Goes

scrapbooksisters- Blue